From: "Cliff Lynch cliff@cni.org" <CNI-ANNOUNCE@cni.org>
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Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 05:28:00 -0400
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Subject: 3rd Annual Digital Data in Biodiversity Conference, Yale, June
 10-12, 2019
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I wanted to share this conference announcement. I attended the first=20
two meetings, which I found very valuable; I cannot be at this one due=20
to other schedule conflicts.=20

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

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Yale Peabody Museum in collaboration with iDigBio, the Natural Sciences=20
Collections Alliance, and Ecological Society of America is pleased to=20
update our announcement of the third annual Digital Data in=20
Biodiversity Research conference, to be held 10-12 June 2019 at Yale=20
University, New Haven, CT.
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Registration is open:=20
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/3rd-annual-digital-data-conference-methods-pro=
tocols-and-analytical-tools-for-specimen-based-tickets-54760252389.
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The lodging options are also open. Please note that we are offering=20
economy lodging again this year:=20
https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Yale_Digital_Data_Lodging_informatio=
n.
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Abstracts may be submitted for workshops as well as oral and poster=20
presentations and discussion sessions (you will receive an abstract=20
link in your registration confirmation letter).
Deadlines:
For workshop proposals: 23 March 2019;
For those submitting an oral presentation or poster abstract: 30 April=20
2019;
General registration: 17 May 2019.
New this year will be the opportunity to submit abstracts for half or=20
full-day workshops and symposia to be held on Wednesday the 12thThose=20
submitting workshop or symposium abstracts must register prior to 23=20
March. Those submitting discussion, oral, or poster presentation=20
abstracts must register prior to 30 April.
The conference wiki, which includes the agenda, is under construction=20
but available at:=20
https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/3rd_Annual_Digital_Data_Conference,_=
Yale.=20
It will be continuously updated, so keep an eye on it.
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More conference info (including a list of keynote and plenary speakers)=20
is available at:=20
https://www.idigbio.org/content/save-date-methods-protocols-and-analytical-=
tools-specimen-based-research-biological-sciences.
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Themes for oral presentations and posters might include:
published or publishable biodiversity research using digitized specimen=20
data,
methods and protocols for enhancing discovery with digitized specimen=20
data,
systematics and the use of digital specimen data,
ongoing research projects that utilize digital data,
gaps and deficiencies in currently available digital data that hinder=20
effective use,
user critiques of digital data, aggregators, and data providers,
pipelines that integrate digitization, data use, and research,
standards and practices for depositing and documenting open access=20
digital datasets,
the role and relevance of =B4Big Data=A1 in biodiversity research,
use of digitized biodiversity specimen data within ecological research=20
and practice,
conservation use of digital specimen data,
the relative importance of vouchers vs. observations as digital data,
managing digital biodiversity specimen data in support of research=20
pipelines,
analyzing and visualizing specimen-based and related digital data.
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The planning team for the 2019 conference includes Tim White, Patrick=20
Sweeney, Larry Gall, Susan Butts, Michael Donoghue, Nelson Rios, Greg=20
Watkins-Colwell, and Michelle Duong from Yale; Jill Goodwin, Gil=20
Nelson, and Pam Soltis from iDigBio; Jill Parsons and Emily Mastrianni=20
from ESA; and John Bates and Rob Gropp from NSCA.
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For further information or to ensure that you are on the conference=20
email list, please contact Jill Goodwin (jvgoodwin@fsu.edu) or Gil=20
Nelson (gnelson@floridmuseum.ufl.edu at iDigBio.
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Gil Nelson PhD, Director
Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio)
Florida Museum of Natural History
University of Florida
gnelson@floridamuseum.ufl.edu
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Courtesy Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium
Florida State University
gnelson@bio.fsu.edu
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